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• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Dummies

  Rob Willson, Rhena Branch

  
  
   

• Irrationality

  Stuart Sutherland

  
  
   

• Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel By Changing the Way You Think

  Christine A Padesky, Dennis Greenberger

  
  
   

• How Children Learn: From Montessori to Vygotsky - Educational Theories and Approaches Made Easy

  Linda Pound

  
  
   

• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

  Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

  
  
   

• The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness: Guided Meditation Practices for the Mindful Way Through Depression

  J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal, Jon Kabat-Zinn

  
  
   

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador)

  Oliver Sacks

  
  
   

• Introducing NLP Neuro-Linguistic Programming

  "Joseph O'Connor", u'John Seymour

  
  
   

• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

  Maryanne Wolf

  
  
   

• Overcoming Depression

  Paul Gilbert

  
  
   

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook for Dummies (For Dummies)

  Rhena Branch, Rob Willson

  
  
   

• This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

  Daniel J. Levitin

  
  
   

• Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

  Daniel Goleman

  
  There was a time when IQ was considered the leading determinant of success. In this fascinating book, based on brain and behavioural research, Daniel Goleman argues that our IQ- idolising view of intelligence is far too narrow. Instead, Goleman makes the case for "emotional intelligence" being the strongest indicator of human success. He defines emotional intelligence in terms of self-awareness, altruism, personal motivation, empathy and the ability to love and be loved by friends, partners, and family members. People who possess high emotional intelligence are the people who truly succeed in work as well as play, building flourishing careers and lasting, meaningful relationships. Because emotional intelligence isn't fixed at birth, Goleman outlines how adults as well as parents of young children can sow the seeds. --Amazon.com
  
   

• An Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Skills and Applications

  David Westbrook, Helen Kennerley, Joan Kirk

  
  
   

• The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome

  Tony Attwood

  
  
   

• How to Pass the New Police Selection System: Practise for the Psychometric Tests and Succeed at the Assessment Centres

  Harry Tolley, Billy Hodge, Catherine Tolley

  
  
   

• Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook (5th Edition): A Student's Handbook

  Michael W. Eysenck, Mark T. Keane

  
  
   

• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author)

  Douglas R Hofstadter

  
  Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel. It also looks at the prospects for computers and artificial intelligence (AI) for mimicking human thought. For the general reader and the computer techie alike, this book still sets a standard for thinking about the future of computers and their relation to the way we think.

  Hofstadter's great achievement in Gödel, Escher, Bach was making abstruse mathematical topics (such as undecidability, recursion, and "strange loops") accessible and remarkably entertaining. Borrowing a page from Lewis Carroll (who might well have been a fan of this book), each chapter presents dialogue between the Tortoise and Achilles, as well as other characters who dramatise concepts discussed later in more detail. Allusions to Bach's music (centring on his Musical Offering) and Escher's continually paradoxical artwork are plentiful here. This more approachable material lets the author delve into serious number theory (concentrating on the ramifications of Gödel's Theorem of Incompleteness) while stopping along the way to ponder the work of a host of other mathematicians, artists, and thinkers.

  The world has moved on since 1979, of course. The book predicted that computers probably won't ever beat humans in chess, though Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997. And the vinyl record, which serves for some of Hofstadter's best analogies, is now left to collectors. Sections on recursion and the graphs of certain functions from physics look tantalising, like the fractals of recent chaos theory. And AI has moved on, of course, with mixed results. Yet Gödel, Escher, Bach remains a remarkable achievement. Its intellectual range and ability to let us visualise difficult mathematical concepts help make it one of this century's best for anyone who's interested in computers and their potential for real intelligence. --Richard Dragan

  
   

• Manage Your Mind: The Mental Fitness Guide

  Gillian Butler, Tony Hope

  
  
   

• Psychology A2 - The Complete Companion guide for AQA: The Complete Companion Guide for AQA (Psychology A2)

  Mike Cardwell, Cara Flanagan